After 16 years, the Chinese women's football team once again won the Asian Cup, becoming the 9th champion in the history of the Asian Cup. In the final with the South Korean women's football team, a young player who came off the bench, Zhang Linyan, joined forces with the "Queen of North London" Tang Jiali to go down two cities in a row, rewriting the score to a 2-2 draw after falling behind by 2 goals. Laying a solid foundation for the Chinese women's football team to make up for the time is the absolute hero of the Chinese women's football team to finally win the cup. After the match, she was named the future star of the Asian Cup final and was highly sought after by fans and the media.
Because the Chinese women's football team has not been very concerned by fans and the media, only a small number of people know that in fact, the first goal scored by the Chinese women's football team in this Asian Cup is closely related to Zhang Linyan. The first opponent of the Chinese women's football team in this Asian Cup is the Chinese Taipei women's football team, and the Chinese team won the penalty just 1 minute and 26 seconds after the opening match. And with the ball burst into the box, it was the young player Zhang Linyan who caused the opponent to foul.
In fact, this is not the first time Zhang Linyan stepped into the vision of the majority of fans, as early as the beginning of the establishment of Evergrande Football School, Zhang Linyan has become a dazzling potential new star in Evergrande Football School, which has attracted the attention of Evergrande fans. In recent days, after the Chinese women's football team won the Asian Cup, the major media dug deep into the interview video of Zhang Linyan in the Evergrande Football School, presumably everyone also understands, so here will not be more to repeat.
Speaking of Evergrande Football School, since its inception, it has been ridiculed and even attacked by some unidentified fans. Why mock, why attack, because Evergrande Football School has no talent. However, today, Evergrande Football School has been established for less than 10 years, only 9 and a half years. Fans who understand football know that youth training is a long and extremely low-achievement project, and it is not possible to see the results in one or two years.
Nowadays, Zhang Linyan's Asian Cup final is a blockbuster, and Evergrande Football School can also be regarded as justifying its own name. In fact, in recent seasons, Evergrande Football School has sent a lot of talents to national teams at all levels, but it is unable to gain a foothold in the once fiercely competitive Chinese Super League, so it is not well known. With the depression of the Chinese Super League and the escape of big-name foreign aid, the young players cultivated by Evergrande Football School have gradually become known in the past 2 seasons. Among them, Wang Shilong, Perlman Jiang and Tan Kaiyuan began to try to overtake the midfield in the 2020 season.
In the second stage of the Chinese Super League last season, after the young coach Zheng Zhi took over the Guangzhou team, the 20-year-old Tan Kaiyuan and the 18-year-old Ling Jie were reused and shined in the Chinese Super League to conquer the national fans. In addition to these new stars who have conquered the Chinese Super League, there are many young players in the Guangzhou team such as Wu Junhao (17 years old), Yang Dejiang (17 years old), Li Xingxian (16 years old) and many other young players who have attracted the attention of fans. In the new season, or in the next few seasons, it is expected to become the main player of the Chinese Super League. It can be said that after 9 and a half years of hard work, Evergrande Football School has shown a state of "blowout" of talents.
According to Wang Xiaorui, a reporter from Sports Weekly, the prospects of the Guangzhou team that are trying to reform the stock market are not as good as those of Guangzhou City. As for what the reason was, Wang Xiaorui did not disclose it. However, according to Wang Xiaorui, Guangzhou Evergrande will occupy the leading role in the Guangzhou team share reform, and the major shareholder is still Evergrande Group, and even Evergrande still occupies a certain proportion after the share reform. To put it bluntly, Guangzhou Evergrande does not want to give up football as rumored by the outside world, but to continue to cultivate in the field of football.
The reason is very simple, Evergrande Football School has begun to produce talents, as long as it survives this difficulty, Guangzhou team will still have the opportunity to dominate the Chinese Super League in the future. Coupled with Zhang Linyan's fame in the Asian Cup, the influence brought by the Chinese women's football team to win the Asian Cup once again proved the correctness of Guangzhou Evergrande's entry into football that year. 10 years of grinding a sword, the sword just sharpened out of the blade, Guangzhou Evergrande of course does not want to give up!